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Angela Davis

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Angela Davis is an American political activist, academic scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Her interests include prisoner rights; she co-founded Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She was a professor (now retired) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department and a former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.

Born

Birmingham, Alabama, USA on 26th January 1944

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Apostrophes Image
Apostrophes
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche Image
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
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Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae Image
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
Self (archive footage)
13th Image
13th
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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am Image
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 Image
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
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Stamped from the Beginning Image
Stamped from the Beginning
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Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday Image
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
Self (archive footage)
The U.S. vs. John Lennon Image
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président Image
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
Malcolm X Image
Malcolm X
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Assignment America
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The Peace!
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Free Angela and All Political Prisoners Image
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
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De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade Image
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
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A Huey P. Newton Story Image
A Huey P. Newton Story
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Breaking Myths Image
Breaking Myths
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Black Is… Black Ain’t Image
Black Is… Black Ain’t
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Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary Image
Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary
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Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in The Rock Image
Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in The Rock
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The House on Coco Road Image
The House on Coco Road
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Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise Image
Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise
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Criminal Queers Image
Criminal Queers
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The Black List: Volume Two Image
The Black List: Volume Two
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Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life Image
Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
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A Place of Rage Image
A Place of Rage
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This Is Personal Image
This Is Personal
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Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight Image
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama- A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberation Image
Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama- A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberation
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Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields Image
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
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Praise Song
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Duels of History Image
Duels of History
Salt of the earth US Image
Salt of the earth US
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Toni Morrison Remembers Image
Toni Morrison Remembers
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Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy Image
Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy
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La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85 Image
La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85
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Wer die Erde liebt Image
Wer die Erde liebt
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George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972 Image
George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972
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Davis Report Image
Davis Report
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Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams Image
Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams
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Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California
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Police Off Campus!
Herself
Queer, Broke & Amazing! Image
Queer, Broke & Amazing!
Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know Image
Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know
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